Did Basques Support the Spanish National Team in the UEFA Euro 2008?

I was in a London pub with some Basques friends watching the football. The place was full and people were sitting by the floor at the beer garden. At our table a lonely guy sat down quietly during the hole match. He was a German, probably intimidated by the Spanish friendly crow and all the booing against Germans that took place since they came out to the pitch. We were also quiet during most of the mach. When the referee blew last whistle, we couldn't hide our disappointment. Then the German guy looked at us and said, Sprechen Sie Deutsch? -Sorry no German - Am I missing something here? - Yes, we are Basques. Then, we all laugh and found some comfort realising that destiny had placed us at the losers’ table.
British media have congratulated the Spanish on the beautiful football they played during the whole tournament. Fair enough. However, they go on to praise the coming together of regional rivalries and the new diverse make-up of Spanish cultural identity. Non-sense. We the Basques do not support Spanish National teams and it is not difficult to find statistics to back up this statement.
The Spanish official bodies are boycotting every effort to grant officialdom to Basque National teams, not only in football, but also in any other sport. Even in Basque Pelota, which is so close to our hearts, we must compete under the Spanish or the French flag. The sport laws are quite complex and designed to undermine real participation and support. In a nutshell, the law says that in the only circumstances were Basques can represented themselves is when there is no Spanish equivalent team or sports federation.
Basques were the pioneers that introduced surf to France and Spain. They created the Basque Surfing Federation and had been competing with great success for a decade but in the year 2000 they were expelled from the European Surf Federation (ESF) because the Spanish Surf Federation was created, possibly with the main intention of stopping the Basques competing internationally. In a recent court ruling the Supreme Tribunal of Spain said that this moved was illegal but we are still waiting to regain our place in the ESF. That is cheating of the worse kind, not in the pitch but in the offices of bureaucrats.
We can find similar events, barriers to entry, legal and bureaucratic obstacles in most sports. It seems that the main item of the sport and cultural agenda of Spanish authorities is to prevent Basque people representing themselves in international competitions. This unsporty behaviour prevents most Basques from supporting the team of our choice. As long as this takes place we will continue to go against Spanish national teams and we will say that, no matter how well they played, they didn’t deserve to win.